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Google Chrome EUVDEUVD-2026-25253

| CVE-2026-6921 HIGH
Race Condition (CWE-362)
2026-04-23 Chrome GHSA-vxp2-rhxg-cr83
8.3
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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NVD PRIMARY
8.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
8.3 HIGH

Remote crafted media (AV:N) needs a hard-to-win race (AC:H) and victim interaction (UI:R); sandbox escape crosses a trust boundary (S:C) with full host impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
SUSE
HIGH
qualitative
Red Hat
9.6 HIGH
qualitative

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

9
Patch released
Apr 24, 2026 - 16:39 nvd
Patch available
Re-analysis Queued
Apr 23, 2026 - 19:27 vuln.today
cvss_changed
Severity Changed
Apr 23, 2026 - 19:27 NVD
MEDIUM HIGH
CVSS changed
Apr 23, 2026 - 19:27 NVD
5.3 (MEDIUM) 8.3 (HIGH)
Patch available
Apr 23, 2026 - 19:01 EUVD
CVSS changed
Apr 23, 2026 - 18:42 NVD
5.3 (None) 5.3 (MEDIUM)
EUVD ID Assigned
Apr 23, 2026 - 17:30 euvd
EUVD-2026-25253
Analysis Generated
Apr 23, 2026 - 17:30 vuln.today
CVE Published
Apr 23, 2026 - 16:12 nvd
HIGH 8.3

DescriptionCVE.org

Race in GPU in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 147.0.7727.117 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted video file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

AnalysisAI

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on Windows before 147.0.7727.117 lets a remote attacker exploit a race condition (CWE-362) in the GPU process by luring a victim into loading a crafted video file, potentially breaking out of the browser sandbox. Google rates the Chromium severity Medium, but the CVSS scope-changing vector drives an 8.3 score; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS exploitation probability is very low (0.06%, 19th percentile).

Technical ContextAI

The flaw lives in Chrome's GPU process, which handles hardware-accelerated media decoding and compositing and is a privileged component that renderer processes communicate with across the sandbox boundary. CWE-362 (concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization, i.e. a race condition) indicates that two threads or IPC operations access shared GPU state without adequate locking, and a crafted video file can time decode operations to win the race and corrupt state used across the sandbox boundary. Because the GPU process straddles the renderer/host trust boundary, winning the race can yield a sandbox escape rather than a mere crash. The single affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome (Windows builds), consistent with the vendor's platform-specific advisory.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: update Google Chrome to 147.0.7727.117 or later on Windows via the Stable channel update described at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_22.html, then fully restart the browser so the updated GPU process is loaded. In managed environments, push the update through your existing Chrome enterprise/auto-update tooling and confirm relaunch. As an interim compensating control before patching you can disable hardware-accelerated media by turning off 'Use graphics acceleration when available' (or setting the HardwareAccelerationModeEnabled policy to disabled), which forces software decoding and sidesteps the vulnerable GPU-process race - at the cost of higher CPU use and degraded video/graphics performance. User-awareness guidance to avoid opening untrusted video files or sites offers only partial risk reduction and should not substitute for patching.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: High
Product Status
openSUSE Tumbleweed Fixed

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